[fpc-devel] Packaging

[Marco van de Voort]

> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Daniel Herzog wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > In order to get fpc into portage, the gentoo packaging system
> > it would be necessary to make available a bootstrap tar ball (640 KB)
> > with the ppc386 binary and a default fpc.cfg file.
> 
> 640 K ? Is that a joke ? The compiler sources alone are more than 2Mb ?

I think he means only the cmdline compiler. A fpc.cfg doesn't matter for
bootstrap purposes. (and would be location dependant, and thus useless
anyway)

This because the main src archive is not OS-ARCH specific.